“Tight is tight,” my old shop teacher would say. “If you overtighten you’ll strip the threads and it’s damaged and can’t be repaired.” Most of us that have used a wrench have stripped or overtightened something and when that happens, there’s no going back. The same thing can happen when applying safety—too much, too often, and too strong can cause ...

Do you often wonder how GPS works? What does it really look like in space? Can thunder hurt me? How does hydraulic fracturing work? What’s the difference between spring wheat and winter wheat? Why do I have blue eyes? Children and adults alike encounter things every day that fill us with questions about how the world works. Bismarck State College ...

Imagine a beautiful classic car, say a 1966 Mustang that was once the pride of its owner. Now, imagine the car has been sitting in an open field, subject to the elements, unused for years. That beautiful machine that ruled the streets is now a rusting, dust-covered slab of metal, unable to start, corroding away the gaskets, belts, gears and ...

U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D. cited North Dakota’s innovation and efficiencies in production as the reason the state will stay afloat amidst oil market uncertainty, WDAY reported yesterday. “Every organization that I’ve been involved in when they’re under stress, you have two option; you can either fold and go home or you can innovate and advance. The great news here is North Dakota’s ...

It’s tough being in the oil and gas industry right now. But the companies who have survived, and in many cases flourished during this most recent downturn, have relied on simple, straightforward and time-tested approaches to their business to weather the storm. They have also been innovators in their field, offering distinctive new environmentally friendly products with a smaller carbon ...

ISNetworld, BROWZ, First Verify, PICS, and other third party vetting providers serve to ensure that your health and safety programs and practices meet client requirements. To put it another way, if you want a client’s business, you’d better have what the client is looking for. The formal vetting of contractors to pre-qualify them for work has been around for a ...

It seems that every week we’re reading about another round of layoffs in the oil and gas industry. According to Houston-based Graves & Co., over 350,000 industry workers had lost their jobs since mid-2014. Some chose to retire, some entered other fields, and some, with an entrepreneurial spirit and a wealth of knowledge and experience in oil and gas, chose ...

From budget cuts to oil spills, here is the news from the Texas oil and gas industry this week. Oil spill photos are finally visible to the public Photos taken by the Civil Air Patrol of flood-related oil spills are now available to the public online, rather than requiring a login and password for the University of Texas website. The ...

They’re tired phrases. Oil slump. Oil glut. Rig count down. Oil price dips. It seems as though every time the oil industry hits the news, one of those phrases are used. But life for those of us who work in the oil and gas industry consists of the here and now, and although the the view of the computer screen reporting the ...

According to Baker Hughes, the U.S. rig count has increased by 10 this week, with Texas gaining four of the total overall increase. The price of oil is inching back up , playing games with that $50 per barrel mark. Oil currently sits at $48.99, and Brent crude is $50.35. The anxiety associated with the British vote to leave the ...

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